Air strike hits major Aleppo hospital – medical workers

Medics inspect the damage outside a field hospital after an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Maadi neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes hit a hospital in rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, putting it out of service, medical workers said.

“The warplane flew over us and directly started dropping its missiles on this hospital…at around 4 a.m.,” Mohammad Abu Rajab, a radiologist at the M10 hospital, told Reuters. “The rubble fell in on the patients in the intensive care unit.”

Since a ceasefire collapsed last week, rebel-held areas of Aleppo have been heavily bombarded, raising international concern over the plight of their 250,000 residents.

(Reporting by Ellen Francis; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

 

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